On 2 Oct 00 at 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It appears I may have been a little to quick to judge the
> abilities of your Pegasus mailer. After some more work I found
> it to be highly configurable as a "stand-alone" mailer and it seems
> that it may work better than Insight on some things. I guess I will
> have to "eat hat" a little and say that I will reconsider which is
> better. Still not on an LAN or using a Pentium 1, though. Well, that
> is another matter, I guess.
Dear "tomstfor"
there is just one Pentium in our office. It is strong enough for
Arachne's GUI and has an internal modem to go online and send/receive
mail. The other computers are just PC 386 with 4-8 MB RAM. To read
HTML text offline with Arachne on them is possible, but not very
comfortable. Pegasus, however is working almost as quick as on the
Pentium. So we write and compose decentrally, put it on a floppy and
send/receive centrally. No LAN, but quite effective. Mail exchange
works with the following batch file to be installed on every
machine:
@echo off
set home=1stPC -> only this line has to be different
on every PC
:disk
cls
echo Insert disk for mail exchange
if not exist a:\pmail\nul goto disk
for %%f in (1stPC Pentium 3rdPC 4thPC) do if not %home%==%%f ->(cont.)
move p:\%%f.mai\*.C?? a:\pmail\%%f
for %%f in (1stPC Pentium 3rdPC 4thPC) do if not %home%==%%f ->(cont.)
move p:\%%f.mai\*.tbs a:\pmail\%%f
move a:\pmail\%home%\*.tbs p:\%home%.mai
move a:\pmail\%home%\*.c?? p:\%home%.mai
Note that p:\XXXX.MAI are the names of physical directories existing
on each machine. PMAIL recognizes them as folders. The directory
PENTIUM.MAI has to be configured as newmail directory everyware (use
Pconfig.exe to do so!). So the small batch program does all
necessary traffic between the four machines.
Example:
I write a message on the Pentium. It is stored as PENTIUM\!xxx.tbs.
While online it can be directly sent from that directory. On the
small machine 1stPC the message will be stored as PENTIUM\!xxx.tbs,
too. With next running the mail exchange batch it moves to
A:\PMAIL\PENTIUM. Inserting the floppy into the Pentium machine gets
it to the directory PENTIUM. With the next online session it will be
sent.
I receive a message xxxx.cnm on the Pentium that is addressed to the
owner of 1stPC. Through the Pegasus automatical sort or manually I
can move it to the 1stPC directory. After having run the mail
exchange program on Pentium and then on 1stPC, the message turns up
in the newmail directory of 1stPC (the actual name of this directory
is, of course, 1stPC).
Best regards
Christof Lange
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